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Converting DVD with menus etc.

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shevans

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Feb 25, 2007
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Is there any method of converting a DVD so that it plays "just like a DVD in a DVD player" or as they do in Frontrow?

I have quite a few DVD that I would like to be able to navigate to the extras from within AppleTV and converting 10 or so titles on each DVD and tagging them all is a right pain in the ....
 
Front Row (and I believe Apple TV) can read video_TS folders, so you could just rip the DVDs straight to your hard drive, which will keep the menus and extras.

As far as I know, that's the only way to do it. MactheRipper and Fairmount are the only two Mac programs I know that can do it, but there may be others.
 
Just jumping in here, but why do you want the menus? I HATE DVD menus. They just require that much more time and that many more button presses to actually start a movie. They were neat for about a week when DVDs came out, but after that... blech.

You could probably play VIDEO_TS folders on a hacked ATV, but the storage requirements would be stupid compared to ripping to h264. A decent looking movie in h264 with 5.1 audio is under 2gb; a full DVD rip is usually over 6 and up to 8gb... that means you'd have 3 or 4 times less movies. EDIT: aTV Flash lets you play video_ts folders. atvflash.com

I dunno, seems like it defeats the purpose of the ATV, to me.
 
Just to jump in here I agree that it takes less space to rip them via handbrake and the quality is very good. But, it only takes like 15min to rip a movie via mactheripper. Then you have to re-encode with handbrake. A much much longer process. I have been doing it but would be great to simplify things and just rip via mactheripper and watch the movie. Also can rip 4 movies in the time it takes to do one. Then you don't have to encode extras by themselves and everything is contained.

Space these days is cheap.

I also want to keep the video_Ts files because I can re-encode for different purpioses becuase I still have the "Master". i.e. rip the movie with the handbrake apple-tv encoding and then want to rip for the ipod or vice versa.

Also, one never knows what the future holds and having them ripped as video_ts you can be sure they will play on most devices out there.
 
Just wondering is there a reason why people use mactheripper? In the past I have just dragged the VIDEO_TS folder to my desktop from the disc icon and handbrake was still to read and rip it.

Mind you I haven't tried the folder in FrontRow.
 
DeFett said:
Just wondering is there a reason why people use mactheripper? In the past I have just dragged the VIDEO_TS folder to my desktop from the disc icon and handbrake was still to read and rip it.

Mind you I haven't tried the folder in FrontRow.
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Starting with .9.3 (or the developer snapshots), Handbrake does not have the ability to decode encrypted content without a 3rd party application. Plus, Handbrake's methods aren't the best when it comes to the new protection schemes out there.
 
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